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We developed an alternative estimation procedure using the methods of S-estimation. The rho function so obtained is proportional to one minus a suitably scaled normal density raised to the power    \u03b1   . We used the theory of S-estimation to determine the asymptotic efficiency and breakdown point for this new form of S-estimation. Two sets of comparisons were made. In one, S power divergence is compared with other S-estimators using four distinct rho functions. Plots of efficiency against breakdown point show that the properties of S power divergence are close to those of Tukey\u2019s biweight. The second set of comparisons is between S power divergence estimation and numerical minimization. Monitoring these two procedures in terms of breakdown point shows that the numerical minimization yields a procedure with larger robust residuals and a lower empirical breakdown point, thus providing an estimate of    \u03b1    leading to more efficient parameter estimates.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e22040399","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,31]],"date-time":"2020-03-31T13:27:19Z","timestamp":1585661239000},"page":"399","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Robust Regression with Density Power Divergence: Theory, Comparisons, and Data Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7886-2207","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marco","family":"Riani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendale and Interdepartmental Centre for Robust Statistics, Universit\u00e0 di Parma, l43125 Parma, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7937-9225","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anthony C.","family":"Atkinson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6936-7295","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aldo","family":"Corbellini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendale and Interdepartmental Centre for Robust Statistics, Universit\u00e0 di Parma, l43125 Parma, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0987-3823","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Domenico","family":"Perrotta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 21027 Ispra, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"549","DOI":"10.1093\/biomet\/85.3.549","article-title":"Robust and efficient estimation by minimizing a density power divergence","volume":"85","author":"Basu","year":"1998","journal-title":"Biometrika"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"356","DOI":"10.1007\/s11749-014-0357-7","article-title":"On consistency factors and efficiency of robust S-estimators","volume":"23","author":"Riani","year":"2014","journal-title":"TEST"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"274","DOI":"10.1198\/004017001316975880","article-title":"Parametric Statistical Modeling by Minimum Integrated Square Error","volume":"43","author":"Scott","year":"2001","journal-title":"Technometrics"},{"key":"ref_4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2420","DOI":"10.1214\/13-EJS847","article-title":"Robust estimation for independent non-homogeneous observations using density power divergence with applications to linear regression","volume":"7","author":"Ghosh","year":"2013","journal-title":"Electron. 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